So I created a polling console app (with the little polling knowledge I have), but the time in my timer isn't timing exactly the amount of seconds specified. Now I have read up on polling, some use ...

I am new in C# and I have a device (peripheral) which I need to poll through serial/USB from a C# console application. Though the code below apparently does not throw any exceptions (errors), nor it ...

I need to implement such behaviour. Something like polling remote web server for the some period of time, checking for the condition in response from the server, for example variable condition.
To be ...

I need to call an external program N number of times. I'd like to do this in parallel. So my strategy thus far has been to start N QProcesses and keep a count of ones that have started and ones that ...

I am working on an application that polls a directory for new input files at a defined interval. The general process is:
Input files FTP'd to landing strip directory by another app
Our app wakes up
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I am fairly new to java programming and have a use case where I need to constantly poll about 15 values in a database table for changes from a java web service. If any of the values change, I need to ...

I have an Apache (OHS) httpd process (1 out of 8 actually) talking to 2 web entry servers (WES), both on RedHat. Plotting the response times taken from the respective logfiles shows a constant delta ...

I am using TFS as version control system and trying to Poll it using Jenkins for continuous integration. I have polled few projects successfully, but while polling a (Delphi, C#) project which on the ...

I would like to create a Twilio app in python that runs in the background on my mac osx desktop and performs an action whenever a new text message arrives. I'm only interested in processing the most ...

I am writing a NodeJS push notification server for iOS and Android. Currently, once I get the device tokens I save them in a local MongoDB database and then fire notifications when there is a change. ...

I'm making a basic email client app and had a question.
I'm using the IDLE server command to get notified when a mailbox has new mail so that I can download it. The problem is that I've noticed that ...

I need a polling thread to perform some network operations every 5 mins. I came up with the following two solution. Which would be better and why? I am looking to have minimum cpu and battery usage.
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I've read lots of articles, blogs, which said that under C#, you shouldn't consider the select/poll because it is just not "the best way to do things" (too "Unix way")
Yes the select/pool behavior is ...

I am trying to perform CI through Jenkins on .NET projects using TFS as source control.
I have created Master Slave connection with Jenkins. Master is my machine and Slave is different VM.
When I am ...

I'm looking for a best way to invoke a python script on a remote server and poll the status and fetch the output. It is preferable for me to have this implementation also in python. The python script ...

In my app after login success, I need to start a thread which connecting to a wcf service for sync data between the app and a backend web.
This process need to carry on every 1 minute and I should be ...

I am trying to communicate with a server using an API.
to make it easier I wrote a script that will communicate the API using a php script.
My goal is to make a query to the API every second to see ...

I need to check something periodically, stop the polling if a certain condition is fulfilled and take some action afterwards (calling a listener). I need to do this for multiple different things.
For ...

I have a program that is polling a file for changes. However, if I open another Linux console and delete the file that it is polling, while it is polling, the program will continue to poll forever. Is ...

I am writing an email application that will access gmail. Might someone advise me please as to what is regarded as a reasonable polling frequency (for example, one per minute, once per five minutes, ...

I am currently developing an iOS app where the app acts as a REST client making calls to a third party REST API. The app makes calls in a polling fashion. This works fine when the app is running in ...

at the moment, I'm calling a php script every 2 seconds with ajax, which checks some stuff from my database and then shows it to the user. We noticed that when we have a lot of simultaneous users, the ...

I'm planning on developing an application that will require updating users about any new emails they receive in Gmail. Unfortunately, it seems that the Google API doesn't support webhooks or anything ...

I am attempting to build a node server (v0.12.2) that responds to clients when a file on the server is altered. One of the more popular blogs with an example of this uses the following line of code ...